Status Updates From Facing Grief: Counsel for M...

Quote: Let your eyes, therefore, be neither wholly dry, nor let them overflow. Weep you may, but wail you must not. Happy man that still keeps the golden bridle of moderation upon his passions and affections, and still keeps the possession of himself, whatsoever he lose the possession of.

Quotes: To bury a child, any child, rends the heart of a tender parent; for what are children, but the parent multiplied? But to lay a son in the grave, this was always reckoned a very great affliction.
He does not condemn all mourning as sinful, no, Christ would not have his people stupid and without feeling; he only prohibits the excesses and extravagancies of our sorrows for the dead.

Reading the Banner of Truth Puritan Classics hardback edition.

“Oh, beware what you do before the world.”

Could only make it through a few pages this morning ❤️‍🩹

“The sweetest creature-enjoyments you ever had or have in this world, cannot say to you, as your God does, ‘I will never leave you, nor forsake you.’”

Didn’t know this book would hit me like it has ❤️‍🩹

“If his glory may rise out of our shame, how willing should we take such shame to us?”

“To bury a child, any child, rends the heart of a tender parent; for what are children, but the parent multiplied? A child is a part of the parent made up in another skin.”

“Yea so deep and penetrating is this grief that the Holy Ghost borrows it to express the deepest spiritual troubles by it: “They shall mourn for him whom they have pierced, has one more for his only son.” (Zechariah 12:10)”